Well... that was only a small cross section.
No ladies yet on whether they thought porn might have changed the hearts of the guys.

"on whether they thought porn might have changed the hearts of the guys"

Gibo people perceptions of the impacts of porn will have a lot more to do with their worldview. Extremist feminists and fundies object to porn because of preconceived beliefs and evidence does not come into it. Others will have varying views depending on their upbringing and general attitudes.

I don't think that there is conclusive evidence on the topic yet (very hard to isolate porn from other social factors) but the preliminary stuff I've seen relates to internet takeup and a drop in sexual assaults committed by teenage boys compared to places with lower internet takeups. Maybe relieving those tensions has some value.

I suspect that what people do with porn has a lot to do with existing attitudes and only a minimal role in creating attitudes.

R0bert

RObert.
I think porn really needs a major government observation.
The fact that it hasnt already seems to be that people are avoiding it.
No one, or no incident, has yet triggered it. Thus no major research.
I would think that major city newspapers probably have a link to its publishing so they dont write major investigations into it.
I often wondered about the sleazy Daily Telegraph in Sydney. Do big newspapers have a link?

Gibo, I'm not much into government intervention but I can see your point.

If it is shown that easier access to porn reduces the rates of sexual assault then perhaps there is value in the government moving to ensure that porn is more accessable to those who may not currently have access to it.

By the way have you noticed that the rise in a prevelance lot of negative social issues seems to have been at around the same time as the growth of large penticostal churches. Obviously those churches are the cause of so many of the social ills which surround us. Time to shut them all down. Unfortunately a number of pollies seem to have links to them so it's unlikely that much will be done.

R0bert

Gibo:

By the same token, if you calculate the number of pirates existing in our oceans over the last 200 years, you see that as the number of pirates decreased, ocean temperatures have risen.

Therefore, we can combat global warming by increasing the number of pirates in the ocean...

There's no actual evidence to show that porn is dangerous, what little evidence there is tends toward the opposite.

"No ladies yet on whether they thought porn might have changed the hearts of the guys.". Well here's one.

"Changed the hearts of guys..." from what? To what? Since when? Hell's teeth, porn has been around since people began. Haven't you ever seen any of the hideous kiddy-porn from the Victorian era? (You know, the era when people were all going to church every Sunday in droves?) Or Seventeenth century porn? Or been to Pompei? Or to Roman or Greek excavations? Or Indian temples? Or South American ruins?

Even if you haven't seen them in situ, surely you must have seen them in books, or National Geographic, or someplace? If porn were to "change the hearts of the guys" it did so centuries ago.

I agree wholeheartedly with every word Robert has written here (and with Foxy and Vanilla et al)and the idea of feeling unsafe in Australian streets is, to me, quite laughable.